Originally, various track gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm); others...

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George...

In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible...

Standard gauge was favored for railway construction in the United States, although a fairly large narrow-gauge system developed in the Rocky Mountains...

railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as "Russian gauge", because...

Broad gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in), more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries (CIS states, Baltic...

alternating current O gauge was the most common model railroad scale in the United States and remained so until the early 1960s. In Europe, its popularity...

1992 United States railroad strike Railroads in New England Timeline of United States railway history Track gauge in the United States "Building the Transcontinental...

Variable gauge systems allow railway vehicles to travel between two railways with different track gauges. Vehicles are equipped with variable gauge axles...

Track gauge conversion is the changing of one railway track gauge (the distance between the running rails) to another. In general, requirements depend...

Track gauge in Canada is standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm), except for Toronto transit systems and the White Pass and Yukon Route. Rail lines...

track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the gauges...

narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most...

narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge...

HOn2½, HO9 and H0e) gauge is the modelling of narrow-gauge railways in HO on N (9 mm / 0.354 in) gauge track in 1:87 scale ratio. The term HOn30 (and sometimes...

OO gauge or OO scale (also, 00 gauge and 00 scale) is the most popular standard gauge model railway standard in the United Kingdom, outside of which it...

line, one of the few such cases in the United States. The narrow gauge service ended in 1960. The second line was organized in 1882, as the Nevada and Oregon...

different gauges meet in marshalling yards or passenger stations. Dual-gauge tracks are by far the most common configuration, but triple-gauge tracks have...

conversion to true standard gauge took place gradually as track was maintained. Now, the only broad-gauge rail systems in the United States are isolated rapid...

rails) is 9 mm or 0.354 in. The term N gauge refers to the track dimensions, but in the United Kingdom in particular British N gauge refers to a 1:148 scale...

countries, and loading gauges may vary across a network, even if the track gauge is uniform. The term loading gauge can also be applied to the maximum size of...

5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) is a broad track gauge, used in India, Pakistan, western Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, and on BART in the San Francisco...

(advertisement in the Atlanta Journal). May 31-June 1 – Conversion of all (most) railroads to standard gauge; see Track gauge in the United States June 2 –...

Standard Gauge, also known as wide gauge, was an early model railway and toy train rail gauge, introduced in the United States in 1906 by Lionel Corporation...

help support the position of the Great Western Railway in the controversy over standardizing the British track gauge. In the United States, the Pennsylvania...

With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run...

list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Trains portal Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States Heritage railway Large amusement...

Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around...

Rail gauges in Australia display significant variations, which has presented an extremely difficult problem for rail transport on the Australian continent...

of 3 ft (914 mm) gauge. This gauge was the most common narrow gauge in the United States and in Ireland. Apart from some other lines in North, Central and...